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Plate V., Fig. 1. — A crop of oats with, potatoes in the fore- 

 ground close to the fence. 



Fig. 2. — The same batch of oats seen in Fig. 1. 



The fence and potatoes being on the right 

 of the photograph. The ground is all 

 ploughed down to the beach. 





XII.— DECADES KEWENSES 



Plaktarum Novaeum is Hbbbario Horti Eegii Coxservatarum. 



DECADES XCII. & XCIII. 



911. Aconitum funiculare, Stapf { Raminculaceae-Helle- 

 boreae] ; inter species section is Napelli tuberibus hornotinis 

 pluribus funicularibus insigne. 



Tubera (in specimine unico viso) 5; unum annotinum, caetera 

 hornotina, omnia cylindrica, basin versus attenuata, tota longi- 

 tudine radices secundarias circiter 1 cm. distantes emittens, 3-9 

 cm. longa, 2-5 mm. diametro, viva pallide fusca, fractura nivea 

 amylacea, sapore tolerabili; cambium cylindrum centrale 

 tenuissimum formans. Gemmae tuberum breviter conicae, 3-5 

 mm. altae. Caul is erectus, 4-5 dm. altus, gracilis, pilis reversis 

 crispo-pubescens vel superne tomentellus. Folia infrafloralia 

 sub anthesi 2, caetera 4 ramulos unifloros (vel si mavis pedicellos) 

 suft'ulgentia, sensim reducta, ilia ambitu reniformia, circiter 3 

 cm. alta, 6 cm. lata, sinu lato, 5-pedato-paftita, carnosula, 

 utrinque sparse minute pilosula, segrnentis cuneatis interioribus 

 3-lobatis extimis 2-lobatis, lobis late linearibus vel lineari- 

 lanceolatis acutis; petiolus infimus 5 cm. longus, folii floralis 

 infiint brevissimus, oiunes puree minute pubescentes. Racemus 

 pauciilorus; pedicelli distantes, 10-6 cm. longi, pube eadem ac 

 caulis induti, medio 2-bracteolati, bracteolis integris lineare- 

 lanceolatis, pedicellis superioribus ad 1-5 cm. longis. Sepala pube- 

 scentia, decidua, summum galeif orme ; galea electa, apice 

 depressa et in rostrum breve subacutum horizontaliter producta, 

 ad 2 cm. alia, superne 1 cm. lata (a latere visa) lilacina, rostro 

 virescente; sepala lateralia oblique rotundato-obovata, vix 

 unguiculata, 1*3-14 cm. diametro, cum galea contigua, superne 

 pallide, inferne magis saturate lilacina, supra medium viridi- 

 maculata; sepala inferiora elliptica, subacuta, circiter 1 cm. 

 longa, violescentia vel virescentia. Nectariorum ungues in 

 galea recte ascendentes, apice prorsus curvati, 1'4-1*8 cm. longi, 

 summo parce pilosuli, mitella latissima suborbiculari dorso rix 

 gibbosa, glandula terminali lata viridi vel violaeea, labio lato 

 integro obtusi-itno recur vo albido. Filamenta glabra, a medio 

 basin versus alata pallida, supra intense coerulea. Carpella 5, 

 subcontigua, patule pubescentia, apice abrupte contracta; styli 



2 mm. longi. 



Eiiotan, Cooper 3586. 



The affinity of this new Aconite lies probably with A. Hookeri,- 

 Stapf, with which it has much in common, as to the general struc- 

 ture of the tubers, the facies of the leaves and the inflorescences 



